Meetings Quotes - Page 2

• A collection of a hundred great brains makes one big fathead.

  Carl Jung

  Brain, Hundred, Bigs

  Carl Gustav Jung, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1970). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Civilization in transition”

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• I've searched all the parks in all the cities - and found no statues of Committees.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Cities, Parks

  "Trust Or Consequences : Build Trust Today Or Lose Your Market Tomorrow". Book by Al Golin, 2004.

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• A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Change, Business, Men

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1909). “The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest”

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• Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.

  Dave Barry

  Business, Self, Organization

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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• A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.

  Milton Berle

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• Meetings don't have to be endless to be eternal.

  James E. Faust

  Endless, Eternal

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• Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization. For one either meets or one works.

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Organization, Definitions

  "The Essential Drucker: Selections from the Management Works of Peter F. Drucker".

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• There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• All real living is meeting.

  Martin Buber

  Life And Love, Real

  Martin Buber (2012). “I and Thou”, p.23, eBookIt.com

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• Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Thinking, Agreement, People

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• Journeys end in lovers meeting.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Romantic, Travel

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [42]

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• Most people simply don't view going to meetings as doing work.

  William Daniels

  Views, People

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• Compared to what they were, rock concerts now are like business meetings.

  Paul Kantner

  Rocks, Concerts, Business Meeting

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• I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Nature, Order

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• You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings.

  Stevie Nicks

  Kids, Artist, Alaska

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• Observe any meetings of people, and you will always find their eagerness and impetuosity rise or fall in proportion to their numbers.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Fall, Numbers, People

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.213

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• Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

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• I don't like being on my own. I'm happy meeting people and collaborating.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  People, My Own, Collaborating

  "The Dreamer: Charlotte Gainsbourg". Interview with Danger Mouse, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• A meeting moves at the pace of the slowest mind in the room.

  Dale Dauten

  Moving, Mind, Rooms

  "(Great) Employees Only: How Gifted Bosses Hire and De-Hire Their Way to Success". Book by Dale Dauten, September 18, 2006.

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• Obviously, you make preparations before you engage in any meeting.

  John Bolton

  Preparation

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• Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

  Ronald Reagan

  Wall, Memorable, Europe

  Remarks at Brandenburg Gate, West Berlin, Germany, 12 June 1987

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• Engaging people is about meeting their needs, not yours

  Tony Robbins

  People, Needs, Engaging

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• The condition of the church may be very accurately gauged by its prayer meetings. So is the prayer meeting a grace-ometer, and from it we may judge of the amount of divine working among a people. If God be near a church, it must pray. And if He be not there, one of the first tokens of His absence will be slothfulness in prayer.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Judging, People

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• A committee is an animal with four back legs.

  John le Carre

  Animal, Legs, Four

  1974 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, pt.3, ch.34.

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